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From: CXT105@psuvm.psu.edu (Christopher Tate)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Quick Question - Strings
Message-ID: <90347.101213CXT105@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: 13 Dec 90 15:12:13 GMT
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Careful here:  remember, the Mac expects to see Pascal-style strings most of
the time (for example, when using DrawString() to write them into a window)
instead of C-style strings.  So, you might have to do something like

     strcpy(test, "\pHello");     /* \p indicates a Pascal string */

instead of

     strcpy(test, "Hello");       /* vanilla C string */

This is what THINK C uses to allow Pascal-string literals in the source
code; I don't know if MPW uses the same convention.

(BTW, if you don't know, C strings have a (char) 0 immediately after the last
char in the string, as a termination mark; Pascal strings use the first byte
as a length indicator -- thus, they can't be more than 255 characters of
actual text.)

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